IHT Planning alongside grandchildren – An exciting time for children but not so much for their parents if they have not made financial provision to plan for this expense. And expensive it is! Not only the major items like tuition fees and accommodation but what about the cost of living – rent, bills, food, books,...

The Rules of the Lifetime ISA as it stands :- Much has been theorised about the Lifetime ISA since it was announced. The questions is, will LISA be beneficial or not to savers? Following the initial announcement of LISA an updated technical note was published on 15 September 2016. This followed detailed discussions with the...

Dividend Changes to Trustees On the surface, the new dividend tax rules may appear to be bad news for trustees – there’s no £5k dividend allowance for them and trust dividend tax rates have increased. But scratch a little deeper and the impact on the levels of income received by beneficiaries may not be as bad...

Tax changes for property landlords (buy to let) : It was announced at summer Budget 2015 that tax relief available to landlords of residential properties for finance costs will be restricted to the basic rate of income tax. This will be phased in from April 2017 and will be fully in place from 6 April...

When £5,000 of dividends are not tax free? The legislation that followed detailed that this is not an allowance (such as the personal allowance). It was actually a zero rate of taxation that would be applied to the first £5,000 of dividends received by an individual. Whilst that may seem to be a technicality, it...